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tree or gatten, cherry-wood, May-rose,, squaw-bush, 

 Gadrise. Red elder. Love-roses. Witch-hopple 

 or -hobble. Pincushion-tree. June-July. 



3. Viburnum pauciflorum Pylaie. 

 Few-flowered Cranberry-tree. Fig. 3959. 



V. pauciflorum Pylaie ; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 1 7. 1 84 1 . 

 Viburnum Opulus var. eradiatum Oakes, Hovey's 



Mag. 7: 183. 1841. 



A straggling shrub, 2-6 high, with twigs 

 and petioles glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 

 broadly oval, obovate, or broader than long, 

 5-ribbed, truncate or somewhat cordate at 

 the base, mostly with 3 rather shallow lobes 

 above the middle, coarsely and unequally 

 dentate, glabrous above, more or less pu- 

 bescent on the veins beneath, ii'-3' broad; 

 cymes peduncled, short-rayed, *'-:' broad ; 

 flowers all perfect and small ; drupes glo- 

 bose to ovoid, light red, acid, 4"-5" long; 

 stone flat, orbicular, scarcely grooved. 



In cold mountain woods, Newfoundland to 

 Alaska, south to Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- 

 mont, Pennsylvania, in the Rocky Mountains to 

 Colorado, and to Washington. June-July. 



2. Viburnum Opulus L. Cranberry- 

 tree. Wild Guelder-rose. High 

 Bush-cranberry. Fig. 3958. 



Viburnum Opulus L. Sp. PI. 268. 1753. 

 V. trilobum Marsh. Arb. Am. 162. 1785. 

 V. americanum Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8 no. 

 8. 1768. 



A shrub sometimes 12 high, with nearly 

 erect smooth branches. Leaves broadly 

 ovate, sometimes broader than long, gla- 

 brous, or with scattered hairs above, 

 more or less pubescent on the veins be- 

 neath, rather deeply 3-lobed, rounded or 

 truncate and 3-ribbed at the base, the 

 lobes divergent, acuminate, coarsely den- 

 tate ; petioles i'-i" long, glandular above ; 

 cymes peduncled, $-4' in diameter, the 

 exterior flowers radiant, neutral, i'-i' 

 broad ; drupes globose, or oval, 4"-s" in 

 diameter, red, very acid, translucent; 

 stone orbicular, flat, not grooved. 



In low grounds, Newfoundland to Brit- 

 ish Columbia, New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa, 

 South Dakota and Oregon. Also in Europe 

 and Asia. Among many English names are 

 marsh-, rose- or water-elder, white dog- 

 wood, whitten-tree, dog rowan-tree, gaiter- 

 cramp-bark. In cultivation, the snowball. 



4. Viburnum acerifolium L. Maple- 

 leaved Arrow-wood. Fig. 3960. 



V. acerifolium L. Sp. PI. 268. 1753. 



A shrub 3-6 high, with smooth gray 

 slender branches, and somewhat pubescent 

 twigs and petioles. Leaves ovate, orbicu- 

 lar, or broader than long, cordate or trun- 

 cate at the base, pubescent on both sides, 

 or becoming glabrate, 2 7 -s' broad, mostly 

 rather deeply 3-lobed, coarsely dentate, the 

 lobes acute or acuminate; petioles i'-i' 

 long; cymes long-peduncled, ii'-3' broad; 

 flowers all perfect, 2" -3" broad ; drupe 

 nearly black, $"-4" long, the stone lenticu- 

 lar, faintly 2-ridged on one side and 2- 

 grooved on the other. 



'In dry or rocky woods, New Brunswick to 

 Georgia, Alabama, Ontario, Michigan and 

 Minnesota. Upper leaves sometimes merely 

 toothed, not lobed. May-June. Squash-berry. 

 Maple-leaf guelder-rose. Dockmakie. 



